"We all fell from Gogol's overcoat," commented Chekhov with reference to Gogol's short story titled THE OVERCOAT which Chekhov considered the short story from which all subsequent Russian authors learned how to write short stories. I shall never forget the scene when the tailor puts the overcoat on the client and tells him to go out of the shop and walk in the street, and once the client steps out, the tailor rushes upstreet to have a look at the back of the client and see how the client looks walking wearing the overcoat the tailor is so proud of having tailored. Likewise, one can say that all subsequent British playwrights after Osborne: Harold Pinter, John Arden, Arnold Wesker, Robert Bolt, Edward Bond and Tom Stoppard in their plays respectively, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, SERJEANT MUSGRAVE'S DANCE, THE KITCHEN, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, SAVED and ROSENGRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD fell from Osborne's LOOK BACK IN ANGER